The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Sean Wybrant, 2017 Colorado Teacher of the Year, has students building virtual reality and augmented reality experiences. Palmer High School, in Colorado Springs District 11, was named the 2017 Colorado Teacher of the Year by Interim Education Commissioner Katy Anthes at an assembly on October 11, 2016. Listen to the Show.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 25, 2019

Monica is the author of Deeper Learning with QR Codes and Augmented Reality: A Scannable Solution for Your Classroom (Corwin Press, 2016) and #FormativeTech: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Scannable Formative Assessment with Technology (Corwin Press, 2017). Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

21 September 2017. ” … As the program continues to grow, Levin thinks it will be increasingly important for the state to demonstrate learning gains and assess how representative early cohorts will be in predicting Ready 21’s future success. As quoted in: Schwartz, Sarah. Education Week.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

21 September 2017. ” … As the program continues to grow, Levin thinks it will be increasingly important for the state to demonstrate learning gains and assess how representative early cohorts will be in predicting Ready 21’s future success. As quoted in: Schwartz, Sarah. Education Week.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

WWC refers to the What Works Clearinghouse, a library of evidence-based teaching practices. Again it worked with different types of students in different parts of the country, and BARR received a third grant to scale it up across the nation in 2017. Source: IES , February 2024. It can be hard to understand these contradictions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

Students Perform on the Most Recent Assessments?” UNESCO (2017, September 2017). The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. .” Retrieved January 21, 2022, 2022, from [link]. 2019, October 14, 2021). “How Did U.S.

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Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

2] This can refer to any stressful or traumatic event that occurs during childhood, such as health issues, loss of a loved one, community violence, and abuse or neglect.[4] Anxiety about grades and assessments is one of the major causes (outside of ACEs) of student stress.[12] Academic Pediatrics, 2017, 17(8), pp. Stempel, H.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Sponsor : PowerSchool has fantastic a fantastic K12 Academic Leaders Webinar Series at coolcatteacher.com/PowerSchoolWebinar including my “Digital Dozen: 12 Tips for Building Your Digital Classroom” and an upcoming webinar on “Best Practices for a Balanced Assessment System.” Stream by clicking here.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

Her books and resources are used around the world: THE WRITING STRATEGIES BOOK (2017) and THE READING STRATEGIES BOOK (1st edition) (2015) have been translated into French, Chinese, and Spanish. Editor's Note: Prosody refers to the rhythm, intonation, stress, and general sound and pattern of language in speech or writing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

AdmitHub is one of seven education and workforce-development startups that Salesforce supported from its first impact fund, which launched in 2017 with $50 million. A couple weeks later, ETS, the world’s largest education assessment nonprofit organization, set up a new investment arm for both investments and acquisitions.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

At the same time, our middle school science department made the switch from traditional grading to standards-based assessment and overhauled our philosophy to focus on fostering revision practices. Since our switch to standards-based assessment in 2016, I've been keeping records on academic achievement and revision behaviors.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

That number refers to customer retention rate, and Bencivenga said he’s called off potential acquisitions when a company’s performance in this department isn’t up to snuff. CaseNEX DataCation bought Pals, a reading assessment platform, in 2012. Customer gap refers to the segment of customers a buyer might add via an acquired product.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

These include “a huge change in assessments and how people demonstrate mastery” in ways other than through standardized testing, she notes. billion in 2017. Most recently , Moe framed the forthcoming disruption to education caused by the pandemic with an anachronistic reference: “The Coronavirus has instantly forced 1.6B

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

’s Study In their research paper “ Lessons Learned: Design and Implementation of Italian Blended Language Courses “, the authors Fabbian et al (2017) provide a number of interesting examples of blended learning in Italian language courses. References Auster, C. Fabbian et al.’s Luna and Stephanie A. Carney, E.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

This facet of modern education transcends the traditional use of textbooks and blackboards, weaving digital tools seamlessly into the learning process (NETP, 2017)). References Finn, P. Leaders of their own learning: Transforming schools through student-engaged assessment. link] Hansen, D., & Imse, L. link] Martinez, M.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

It’s a longstanding national crisis, often referred to as the “digital divide,” which at Kapor Capital we identify as one of the cumulative barriers across The Leaky Tech Pipeline. In 2017, 53 percent of the students in the K-12 public education system in the United States were Black, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indigenous or multiracial.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Credit: Julia Nikhinson/ Associated Press In 2017, as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice intended to address widespread racial disparities in how students were disciplined, schools in Wicomico County agreed not to misuse emergency petitions. When she arrived at the school, she said, her son was already in handcuffs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. I started this program in the summer of 2017. Jody: We started in August of this year, so August 2017.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

million in a pre-Series A round from Partech Partners, Citizen Capital and Educapital, an education-focused investment firm launched in 2017. Some activities involve multiple-choice questions; others ask children to read words and passages in order to assess their oral fluency. Lalilo has closed $5.5

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 1, 2018

They’re completing formative assessments. Bethany: Wow, EdPuzzle is just fabulous because you know you can embed that formative assessment right there in the video. In the classroom the formative assessment is extremely important, and those tools just make it fun. Use the tools as formative assessments and use that data.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2018

The teachers in this book really refer to games not as games, but as virtual field trips or digital field trips where their students would experience something, and then they would be able to take that context and use it in a learning environment. They design these assessments based on reflections. Teachers aren’t afraid to fail.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based tool that lets you customize assessments with multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and more. Wednesday, September 6, 2017. If they want to, they can, if they want to reference their own personal Twitter account. Thanks to so-and-so, and maybe reference them.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In 2017, we put together a new strategy and a new team, and this is the first set of products that have come off the new assembly line. Specifically, what are these new products that you’re referring to? One is the linkage of assessment to instruction. When did that new team come in? Can you clarify what that means?

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Buncee

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Since winning the AASL award for one of the best digital storytelling tools in 2017 , the Buncee team has always loved being a part of school libraries across the country. Using Buncee with your eBook collection supports the Literacy and Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment standards.

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ASIDE

JUNE 4, 2017

ASIDE 2017 It’s been a hectic spring, and as we approach the end of school in fewer than 8 days, we are busier than ever. ASIDE 2017 One of the things we try to do is steer clear of just filling in worksheets and graphic organizers; instead, we want our learners to design their own organizational structures of information.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Five years ago, the application of data and algorithms to the HR function—as well the use of pre-hire assessment—were in a fledgling stage. Online education services companies – or “ OPMs ” as many refer to them, have continued to play a major role in the scaling of online higher education, within, and now increasingly beyond the U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based tool that lets you customize assessments with multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and more. Friday, September 8, 2017. It helps give them a frame of reference. These apps will work for all ages of students and subjects. All comments in the shaded green box are my own.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Date: November 9, 2017. We saw some movement in the 80’s and 90’s around portfolio development, around performance assessment, and other sorts of indicators of authentic work. That’s gotten some waivers from the state department, where they’re trying to figure out what common performance assessments look like across districts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam lets you create assessments with formats including multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and even handwritten numeric answers that can be read and scored by Aita – Gradecam’s Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistant.Score assessments, generate reports, and transfer grades automatically.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 10, 2017

Are you going to Alan November’s BLC in Boston this July (2017)? The standards and skills are constantly assessed in a variety of ways involving numerous stakeholders. Most of all, there is an alignment between standards, skills, and assessment. Formative and Summative Assessment. Thanks so much. Check out my sessions!

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

The director of student support services for Long Beach Unified School District wanted to reduce the number of local students who were chronically absent, a term that refers to those who miss 15 or more school days of the academic year. percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 But it has proven elusive.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

I am taking dates for 2018 with 2017 just about full… Mike Gorman ( [link] / ). It provides the opportunity for independent learning, self-regulation, formative assessment, and self regulation. These may be referred to as the analog tools. I am now almost booked through the rest of the 2017. Analog tools.

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Veative

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

By creating specially designed virtual environments for the detection, assessment and treatment of this disorder, Virtual Reality can serve both as a diagnostic tool and an effective therapeutic strategy in the rehabilitation of children with ADHD. How can VR help children with ADHD. Due to its high ecological validity, Rizzo et al.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Monday, October 9, 2017. For guests and hyperlinks to resources, scroll down. Blog: [link].

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Students’ local contexts can be their family, school, community, or even their country, while global contexts refer to international or universal frameworks. Their oral and written responses may not always reflect their level of understanding, but whatever they deliver should be assessed as it is.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

She served on the leadership team for the EdTech Coaches Network of ISTE from 2015-2020, was a Future Ready Schools Instructional Coaches Thought Leader from 2017-2020, is a cohost of the Restart Recharge Podcast for coaches, and is a Google Certified Innovator, Coach, and Trainer. Head to Lumio for more information and to sign up for FREE.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2023

During its regular session, the Legislature passed a bipartisan bill mandating every student who performed in the top 40 percent on a fifth-grade math assessment automatically be enrolled in advanced math for sixth grade. “We’re Related: Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math?

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